What is the standard of review for errors by the Master?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Gao v. De Keyser, 2008 CanLII 27176 (ON SCDC):
The standard of review of an error by the Master is correctness with respect to principles of law and palpable and overriding error with respect to questions of fact (Zeitoun v. The Economical Insurance Group (Divisional Court, May 6, 2006).
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